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"sketch biography" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation
小传 小傳 xiǎo zhuàn sketch biography / profile
Chinese Pinyin Translation
传 傳 zhuàn biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station syn
构思 構思 gòu sī to design / to plot / to plan out / to compose / to draw a mental sketch / conception / plan / idea / composition syn
草图 草圖 cǎo tú a sketch / rough drawing
素描 sù miáo sketch
传记 傳記 zhuàn jì biography / CL:篇[pian1],部[bu4] syn
草稿 cǎo gǎo draft / outline / sketch syn
绘图 繪圖 huì tú to chart / to sketch / to draft / to plot syn
外传 外傳 wài zhuàn unofficial biography (as opposed to official dynastic biography)
段子 duàn zi item of storytelling or performed dialogue (folk arts) / sketch syn
示意图 示意圖 shì yì tú sketch / schematic diagram / graph
相声 相聲 xiàng sheng comic dialogue / sketch / crosstalk
勾画 勾畫 gōu huà to sketch out / to delineate syn
人像 rén xiàng likeness of a person (sketch, photo, sculpture etc)
正传 正傳 zhèng zhuàn main subject of long novel / true biography
速写 速寫 sù xiě quick sketch
勾勒 gōu lè to draw the outline of / to outline / to sketch / to delineate contours of / to give a brief account of syn
剪影 jiǎn yǐng paper-cut silhouette / outline / sketch syn
写生 寫生 xiě shēng to sketch from nature / to do a still life drawing syn
简述 簡述 jiǎn shù to outline / to summarize / to sketch / summary / brief description / concise narrative / in a nutshell / briefly
传略 傳略 zhuàn lüè biographical sketch syn
稿本 gǎo běn manuscript (of a book etc) / sketch (of a design etc) syn
眉目 méi mù general facial appearance / features / arrangement / sequence of ideas / logic (of writing) / rough sketch or general idea of things syn
列传 列傳 liè zhuàn historical biography
本纪 本紀 běn jì biographic sketch of an emperor
打底 dǎ dǐ to lay a foundation (also fig.) / to make a first sketch / to eat sth before drinking / to apply an undercoat
画稿 畫稿 huà gǎo rough sketch (of a painting) / (of an official) to approve a document by signing it
生平简介 生平簡介 shēng píng jiǎn jiè biographic sketch
别传 別傳 bié zhuàn supplementary biography
单口相声 單口相聲 dān kǒu xiàng shēng comic monologue / one-person comic sketch
立传 立傳 lì zhuàn to record sb's achievements in writing / to write a biography enhancing the subject's image
树碑立传 樹碑立傳 shù bēi lì zhuàn lit. to erect a stele and write a biography (idiom) / to monumentalize / to glorify / to sing the praises of syn
吴晗 吳晗 wú hán Wu Han (1909-1969), historian, author of biography of Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, hounded to his death together with several members of his family during the cultural revolution
勾划 勾劃 gōu huà to sketch / to delineate
事略 shì lüè biographical sketch syn
纪传体 紀傳體 jì zhuàn tǐ history genre based on biography, such as Sima Qian's Record of the Historian
略图 略圖 lüè tú sketch / sketch map / thumbnail picture
传赞 傳贊 zhuàn zàn postscript to a biography
史传 史傳 shǐ zhuàn historical biography
圣经外传 聖經外傳 shèng jīng wài zhuàn Apocrypha / biography external to the classics
圣经贤传 聖經賢傳 shèng jīng xián zhuàn lit. holy scripture and biography of sage (idiom) / refers to Confucian canonical texts
记传 記傳 jì zhuàn history and biography
说岳全传 說岳全傳 shuō yuè quán zhuàn "The Story of Yue Fei", biography of Song dynasty patriot and general Yue Fei 岳飛|岳飞[Yue4 Fei1]
内传 內傳 nèi zhuàn biography recounting apocryphal anecdotes and rumors / (old) book of exegesis of a classic
像片簿 xiàng piàn bù album / photo album / sketch book
崖略 yá lüè (literary) outline / general idea / rough sketch syn
全景描绘图 全景描繪圖 quán jǐng miáo huì tú panorama sketch
打底子 dǎ dǐ zi to sketch / to draft / to lay the foundation
简笔画 簡筆畫 jiǎn bǐ huà simple drawing / sketch
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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